Mavericks and password protected WiFi

I upgraded to Mavericks on early 2011 MacBook Pro 13 inch.  My basic WPA(2) is working fine.
However I tried to connect to password protected WiFi on inflight GoGo internet and the hotel internet and neither would bring up the webpage to login.
The WiFi in the menu bar showed it was connected and NO ! mark so no apparent problem. I tried Safari, Chrome and Firefox.  I had not previously tried to connect to GoGo but had previously used the hotel WiFi

IsaacR312 wrote:
So then why did Steve Jobs even mention him not liking having to have a password to access Wifi networks if he wasn't even going to fix the problem?
Go back an listen to what Steve said again, because you did not listen carefully.
He said that many devices that use the internet have issues because you need to enter passwords to access hotspots and because these devices don't have a full internet browser you can't enter the details. What the iPod touch provides is a full internet browser (Safari) and that allows you to enter the login details for internet hot spots. See the difference?
So you can use password protected hot spots, you need to enter the password and the iPod touch using Safari allows you to do that.
Simple!

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